The British General Charles George Gordon (1833–85) was greatly admired by the Victorian public for his work in China and the Sudan “defending the Empire.” He was also a cosmologist who believed that the real site of the garden of Eden was the island of Praslin in the Seychelles, off the southeastern coast of Africa.

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